Means for reducing the capacity of fire boxes



Apri-10,1923. E 1,451,405

L. C. PETERS MEANS FOR REDUCING THE CAPACITY OF FIRE BOXES @Umweg Apr. 10, 1923.

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MEANS FORREDUCING THE CAPACITY OF HERE BOXES.

I Application led Deembe1v22, 1921. -S'ei'ial-Nol 524,066.

To all whom t may 'con-cem.' 4 y Be it knownthat I, LEONARD PETERS, a citizen of, the United States, `residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvementsin -Means for Reducing the Capacity of Fire Boxes, of which the following is a specication.

The object of my inventionk is the provision of simple, easily applied and elicient means for reducing the capacity of a stove lire box as when it is desired to build a small lire in the box.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists `in the improvement as here inafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, yforming part of this speciiication2'-r Figure 1 is a plan view, partly broken away, showing my improvement as properly positioned in the fire box of a stove.

Figures 2 and 3. are vertical sections taken in the planes indicated by the lines 2-2 and 3 3, respectively, of Figure 1.

Figures 4 and 5 are detail perspectives of the sections that constitute the partition wall of my improvement.

Figure 6 is a detail perspective of the brace l for maintaining the said working position.

n Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the vviews of the drawings. i

partition wall in rlhe lire box l is provided with a refrac-V tory lining 2 and with a grate 3 and is otherwise of the ordinary construction or oa-ny otherappropriate construction for the use of my improvement.

My improvement comprises a mat 4 of asbestosor other appropriate imperiorate fireproormaterial, a partition wall 5, and a brace 6 for maintaining the partition wall 5 in working position.

As best shown in yFigure 4 the partition wall 5 comprises two sections 7 and 8, each of the sections being rabbeted as indicated by 9 and eachbeing provided in its reduced portion with an oblong slot 10, said slots 10 being designed to be registeredy when the reduced portions of the partition sections are lapped as shown in Figures 1, 2'and 3. It will also be noticed that each of the partition sections 7 and 8 is provided with a depending projection l1, the said projections 11 being designed and adapted to enter an opening of the grate 3, Figures 2 and 3,

that the whole improvement can so ,fasy toassist materiallyin maintaining the partition in working position in the lire" box.

`. .The brace; is preferably of the contiguration shown, and is designed to bear at its outer end against one end wallof the tirek box. The said brace 6 rests solidly on the ,mat 4 'and bears at its inner end 1 2 against .the partition 5. lt will also be noticed that the brace 6 is provided near its inner and outer corner with a stem 13 on which is a vertically-disposed Thead 14.

ln assembling the partition 5 and the brace 6 precedent to putting the same in a fire box, the br'ace 6 is held in horizontal position, and the T-head 14 is passed forwardly through the registered openings l0 in the sections and 8, after which the brace 6 is turned to upright position with the result that the T-head 14v will rest in upright position at the opposite side of the partition 5, with reference to the major portion of the brace so that the partition and the brace will be securely and the sections 7 and will be strongly secured ative position.

In putting my improvement into use, the mat is laid on the part or' the grate that it is desired to put out of commission, after which the connected partition 5 and, brace 6 are placed 6 on the mat 4 as illustrated. v

By particular reference to Figure 2 it will be observed that when my improvement as described in a fire box about one-half of the re box is rendered idle so that a small iire may be maintained in the fire box at the left of the partition 5 in Figurey 2 without liability of any draft being wasted by passage through the idle portion of the lire box. y v When it is desired to utilize the full capacity of the'iire box l it will be manifest that my improvement may be expeditiously and easily'removed from they fire box, and wheny it is desired to store the improvement, the brace 6 may be quickly and easily disconnected r'rom the partition sections 7 and 8, and-the said partition sections may be readily disconnected from each other so .be packed 8 of the partition in a space of small compass.

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relatively-arrangement of parts embraced in the present and interloclred, f

in the fire box, with the brace .in their proper relenl fl claim and desire to secure by Letters`` preferred embodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear and'exact understanding of the said embodiment. I do not desire, however, to bek understood as coniining myself to the said specific construction and relative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various charmes and modifications may be made such as Iall Within the scope of my invention as defined in my appended claim.

' Having described my invention, what Patent, is 1- li/leans to reduce the capacity of fire LEONARD C. PETERS. 

